Creative Work Database

Listing of creative work related to Singapore.

Our new Creative Work database is a repository for literary and dramatic works related to Singapore which are written by FASS Faculty and Students, past and present. The contents of this work-in-progress call on the theories and techniques taught and researched at FASS. Some of the creative work links to a sample of the original text. Research is also ongoing and the database will grow as we continue to update it. Items with the symbol “i” indicate that an abstract is available.

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Produced by Professor Rajeev Patke, this Audio CD features recordings of Singapore poets reading their own poems. Poets included in this collection include Edwin Thumboo, Arthur Yap, Lee Tzu Pheng and Leong Liew Geok.

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Written Country: The History of Singapore Through Literature intriguingly reconstructs the history of modern Singapore through ­fifty defining moments from the Fall of Singapore to the passing of Lee Kuan Yew.

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Written Country: The History of Singapore Through Literature intriguingly reconstructs the history of modern Singapore through ­fifty defining moments from the Fall of Singapore to the passing of Lee Kuan Yew.

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A teacher and his wife get caught up in the drama of election politics and a Channel 8 soap opera. An invalid house-sits for his sister and has to care for his nephew’s pampered pet pig. A daughter travels overseas to convince her elderly father to move home with her. An academic must navigate an opaque bureaucracy to renew his Re-Entry Permit. A young Lee Kuan Yew finds camaraderie with a future Canadian Prime Minister in England, and relentless tenacity from a British student in Canada desperate for an interview. Heaven Has Eyes dramatises these small moments of transcendence in everyday life, and more.

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Arthur Yap Chioh Hiong (1943-2006) was a Singaporean poet and artist. He held an MA from Leeds and a Ph.D from the National University of Singapore, where he taught in the Department of English Language and Literature from 1979 until 1998. He published a volume of poetry in 1971 under the title Only Lines and later published three more volumes of poetry (Commonplace, Down the Line, and Man Snake Apple) under the Heinemann imprint. His poetry also appears in a variety of periodicals.
The Collected Poems of Arthur Yap gathers the entire corpus of Arthur Yap's poems in a single volume. Yap based his writing on life and events in Singapore, and his contribution to Singapore literature was first acknowledged in 1976, when he won the initial poetry award granted by the National Book Development Council of Singapore for Only Lines. In 1983 he received both the Singapore Cultural Medallion for Literature and the Southeast Asian Write Award. His work is notable for word play, occasional use of the street patois of Singapore, and commentary on the values and priorities.

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The Way We Go follows Agatha Mao, former principal of the Convent of Our Lady of Lourdes, as she experiences the greatest loves of her life: Edmund, her intellectual partner, and Violet, her best friend. Sprawling over 12 years, this tender story of love and friendship between outsiders also brings into relief the fraught relationship of former students Lee and Gillian, who come to ask the same questions as their elders: What are the costs of love? Why do people need each other? What’s at stake when we reach out?
Written with wit and affection, The Way We Go is a sensitive meditation on growing up and growing old. It looks at love in places where we least seek it; the love for learning, life, and language; the love between friends and kindred spirits. Above all, The Way We Go celebrates love in all its simplicity and complexity.

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A prominent scholar in the development of neo-Confucianism, Zhang Junmai was invited in 1965 by then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew to be political advisor, an ancedote recounted in “Bound Feet and Western Dress: A Memoir.” Yet today, the man and his works remain largely unknown to Singaporeans despite his ties with the country.

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Beginning with an anecdote of the 1980s when Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew discussed with prominent Confucian scholars if Confucianism could be taught in English, Ong reflects on the changes in the relative significance of both Chinese and Western cultures and their languages in Singapore, and wonders about the changes to come in the next twenty years.

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Ong visits China and finds that Singapore has acquired an atypical fame there. People are not interested in it per se, but because of it relevance to China. Names associated with Singapore, like Lee Kuan Yew and the Chinese daily newspaper, Lianhe Zaobao, are appreciated because of their views or news about China.

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In this essay, Ong critiques Singapore's bilingual educational policy. Contrary to an opinion expressed by then Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, Ong argues that mastery of both Chinese and English by Chinese students is possible, but Singapore fails to achieve this because its permissive policy lowers Chinese standards to accommodate weaker students.

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While disagreements from the participants in a dialogue session with then Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew have been attributed to Westernisation and a superficial understanding of Singapore's history, Ong disagrees and suggests that the participants raised legitimate concerns about the ruling party's political ideology and practices.

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In the city of Kesamet, all of life's quibbles have been solved. Energy, food and water are 100% recyclable. Happiness is found in a pill, tears are non-existent. People get to choose everything, even death. Dan works in an Orgone factory by day and dreams kaleidoscopic dreams by night. Drifting in satiated time, he tells his only friend Talulah he's ready to die. By chance, he meets Mag and in her blind eyes sees a haunting paradise. One that will bring him deep into the past, uproot his present and fracture the future.
Written by Zizi Azah Abdul Majid and directed by Rizman Putra, PARADISE features an enigmatic cast comprising of Ang Hui Bin, Eugene Tan, Crispian Chan, Jean Toh Ting Yi and Maimunah Bagharib.
Sound design by Zul Mahmod, Lighting Design by Andy Lim, Costume Design by Eugene Tan, Video Design by Eric Lee, Set Design by Neon Tights, Graphic Design by Mohd Fared Jainal and Make-Up by Haslina Ismail.

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Few people can actually know what is so called "Xin Jia Po Zhi Zao"(made in Singapore),in this article,the author is trying his best to cite vivid examples,such as Singlish,Banyan Tree,Dick lee and SIA. In a word,you will be proud of "made in Singapore" in all walks of your life!